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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has confirmed that he received an email from the chief executive of data firm Cambridge Analytica inquiring about Hillary Clinton's deleted emails:
The WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said on Wednesday that he had rebuffed a request for help last year from the head of a data firm that worked for Donald J. Trump and is now facing congressional scrutiny.
On Twitter, Mr. Assange said he had been approached before the 2016 election by Alexander Nix, the chief executive of Cambridge Analytica, which worked for Mr. Trump during the final months of the campaign. Mr. Assange did not disclose what kind of help Mr. Nix sought, only that he had declined the request. "I can confirm an approach by Cambridge Analytica," Mr. Assange wrote, "and can confirm that it was rejected by WikiLeaks."
But The Daily Beast reported on Wednesday that Mr. Nix had emailed Mr. Assange looking for copies of more than 30,000 emails that were deleted from Hillary Clinton's private server and never publicly released. Mrs. Clinton has said that the emails were personal in nature.
[...] It is also unclear why Mr. Nix would have believed that Mr. Assange had copies of the missing emails. Earlier last year, WikiLeaks had posted a searchable database of more than 50,000 emails from Mrs. Clinton's private server, all of them previously released by the State Department. But Mr. Trump himself seemed eager to find the missing emails: At a campaign rally in July, Mr. Trump publicly asked Russia to obtain the deleted emails.
"There's no such thing as a dumb question." :-) 😂😂😂
Also at The Guardian, CNN, The Hill, and Politico.
Previously: Assange Thanks USA for Forcing Him to Invest in Booming Bitcoin
(Score: 2, Insightful) by c0lo on Friday October 27 2017, @11:53AM (14 children)
If russian influence in US politics is bad, why a british company influencing the same is good?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Thexalon on Friday October 27 2017, @03:38PM (9 children)
Because the Russians are an Official Enemy Of the United States, that's why. It's sort of like how we all get up in arms about North Korea's nukes, but not Israel's, India's, or Pakistan's.
And if you're an Official Enemy and aren't actually doing anything wrong, don't worry, the US intel agencies will make something up.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Friday October 27 2017, @04:18PM (8 children)
It's sort of like how we all get up in arms about North Korea's nukes, but not Israel's, India's, or Pakistan's.
We're currently at war with only one of those countries.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 27 2017, @04:22PM
Yeah, well, the other three are at war with us, sending all those terrorists around the globe, and on our dime.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by bob_super on Friday October 27 2017, @05:55PM (6 children)
Nope, despite how often we bomb and invade them, we're not at war with Pakistan. Scaring them all with random drone patrols and bombings on their weddings because of their supposed support for some ideology is "anti-terrorism operations", not war.
The US hasn't declared war on anyone in a really really long time.
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Friday October 27 2017, @06:12PM (3 children)
The US hasn't declared war on anyone in a really really long time.
We haven't declared peace with anyone in a really long time either.
The answer is North Korea. [bbc.com]
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Friday October 27 2017, @06:25PM (1 child)
Nope. The US never declared war on North Korea [senate.gov].
(Score: 2) by realDonaldTrump on Friday October 27 2017, @07:23PM
#LittleRocketMan thinks I declared war on him. I haven't yet. But follow me on Twitter -- it’s MODERN DAY PRESIDENTIAL. 🇺🇸
(Score: 3, Interesting) by cubancigar11 on Saturday October 28 2017, @05:34AM
Pakistan consists of rather rich, rather "I drink at my home but talk about Sharia in the morning" religious people who live in a small area of Pakistan called Punjab and who control all the wealth and power. They are friends of the Washington since the days of NATO.
The rest of the Pakistan is illiterate bunch of villagers who used to give shelter to mujahedins with full support of Punjab and the Washington. You know, the freedom-fighters from all across the world used to come there and get free training in guerrilla warfare. And it was all good...
Then after 9/11 Washington decided to leave these mujahedins to the lurch. Important note: Punjab maintains its control by pointing out the common enemy India. To do that it needs to constantly fund the "freedom fighters" in Kashmir and others parts of India. As Paskitani economy tanks, it needs to pump more money into this fight. So it needs Washington's support. Long story short, they let Washington bomb the people who suddenly found themselves sheltering "terrorists".
The back-stabbing is felt by all the villagers in that area and is loudened by each drone strike, which begets bombing against Punjabi profeeters, and so even more drone strikes.
Is Pakistan an enemy of USA? A dog gets into a fight to save its master, and contacts rabies.
(Score: 2) by Thexalon on Friday October 27 2017, @09:51PM (1 child)
I always found it rather odd that Afghanistan was accused of harboring Osama bin Laden and attacked, while Pakistan was actually harboring Osama bin Laden and has not had its government overthrown. It's almost as if the real goal was putting a Unocal executive in charge so he could approve an oil pipeline that the Taliban had been reluctant to allow.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Friday October 27 2017, @10:04PM
> Afghanistan was accused of harboring Osama bin Laden and attacked, while Pakistan was actually harboring Osama bin Laden and has not had its government overthrown
As Mr Kim would say: it's amazing how much respect a few nukes buy you.
Add a population over 200 million ...
(Score: 5, Informative) by DeathMonkey on Friday October 27 2017, @04:02PM (3 children)
Americans hired some Brits to write a paper.
Russia directly interfered with our election.
Your equivalency is false.
(Score: 1, Troll) by Yog-Yogguth on Friday October 27 2017, @07:57PM (2 children)
I've interfered more with your election than the Russian government simply by speaking my mind.
People like you could even claim that any donations I've made to SoylentNews were all about influencing the US election! :D
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(Score: 3, Informative) by DeathMonkey on Friday October 27 2017, @09:00PM (1 child)
I've interfered more with your election than the Russian government simply by speaking my mind.
You didn't penetrate the email servers of our political parties. You didn't attempt to penetrate State Election Commission servers.
(Score: 2) by Yog-Yogguth on Saturday October 28 2017, @01:14PM
I'm thinking most people realize you're pushing the US government narrative of 100% lies, half truths, and bullshit.
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